Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-08-06
DAILY HERALD.
THE CHAUTAUQUA.
The Interest In the College by the
Sea Una abated.


daily session of the Chautauqua and
the exercises are of great interest. 1t
is impossible for newspaper to pub
lish each day in full the proceedings,
hut the lecture of Rev. Selah w.
Brown is too good to be lost and con-
sequently it is reproduced below. Mr..
Brown spoke ON last Thursday even
ing to crowded tabernacle and his
lecture was of high order. The fol-
lowing is a synopsis of his address on
MAHoMMoDAN WOMEN:
"Don't take on so, Kate" said
grand old Martin Luther, as he and
his wife were weeping over
the dead body of their daugh-
ter, Margaret. Don't take
on so, Katie. Don't you know that
this is very hard world for girls ?"
Martin Luther was right. This is
y hard world for girls and women.
Not in happy America, where woman
is queen; not in Christian lands,
where womanhood is honored and
1OSCu, Uut III All ldIluS WlAcTc tuc
Bible is not known. Every religion
on earth, except Christianity, de-
grades woman. In all pagan and
Mohammedan lands she is treated as
If far inferior to man. The Chinese
have a saying "that man is as much
above woman as heaven is above
earth" Of the daughters of India
it is said, "they are unwelcome at
birth, untaught in childhood, enslaved
when married, accursed as widows,
unlamented in DEATH"
A Mohammedan speaks of his wife
rs he would of his dog or his donkey.
DIR. Thompson tells us of a Syrian
adjective which expresses as much of
yileness and meanness as they can
crowd into one word, and that adjec-
tive is the word commonly applied by
the Arabs to their wives. An Arab
has more respect for his horse than
for his wife. In Persia it is a great
insult to man to inquire after his
wife. A Hindoo speaks of his wife as
"my servant" or "my dog" but she
mus: s:answer "my Lord"
In most heather lands the birth of
a daughter is looked upon as calam-
ity and occasion for sorrow. Often
the grief of the father is very great,
and even the mother calls her female
friends together to weep over her mis-
fortune. The fact of her being a girl
is often sufficient reason for putting
her to death. Infanticide is fearfully
common in many Pagan lands.
A heather mother on being re-
moved for destroying her children,
replied with tears "Would God my
mother had destroyed me at my birth,
and thus prevented the distress l now
suffer-" One of the saddest sights l
ever saw, was the "baby towers"
near Shanghai in China. On these
were shown the little bodies without
shrowd or coffin and sometimes before
death.
In marriage, heather women are
not at their liberty.
All marriages are arranged by par
ents or friends. Children, and even
infants. are betrothed, and child mar
riage is one of the great curses OF pa
gan lands. In many places the wires
are bought and sold like so much prop
erty, and pleased or displeased they
must 60 to be the companions of those
they have never seen nor loved.
Again, woman's education is neg
lected. In all pagan and Mohammedan
lands there is not school for girls.
"What!" I" said Brahmin, Educate
my daughters! would as soon think
of educating my cows,
In all heathen lands polygamy is
common. That alone destroys its
domestic happines, and brings
to the home severy jealousy, ha-
tired and strife. Divorces are always
very common, and that, too, for the
smallest offences. In some lands
wife may be put away even for speak
ing unkindly to her husband. In fact,
the wife is nothing better than slave.
The Koran authorizes the husband to
chastise her. The Hindoo Shastens
say: "The wife must keep her eve
upon her husband when in her pres
ence. When he speaks, she must be
silent. When he laughs she must
laugh; when he weeps she must weep,
and when he sings she must be in
ecstacy. A woman has no other God
than her husband. Though he be
aged, infirm, dissipated, drunkard or
y debauchee, still she most regard him
as her God" This same Bible of the
Hindoos says: "Let the woman who
wishes to perform sacred devo-
tion wash the feet of her hus-
band and drink the water.
Paganism gives no soul to woman.
Said mandarin to French traveller,
" women have no SOULS" and when
it was argued that they had, the man.
DARN laughed long and loud and re-
Piled, " when l get home, l will tell
my wife she has soul, and she will
be as much astonished as l.
Buddhism, the great religion of
Japan, China, Siam, Java, Sumatra
and Ceylon-in fact, the mammoth
religion of the world-provides no
heaven for woman. There is abso-
lutely no hope for the future. Her
only hope is to die and be born again
as man, and if good and faithful, by
the doctrine of transmigration, she is
taught she may have another chance
on earth in the form of a man;
but if unfaithful, her life may
be that of dog. donkey or reptile
Hence in China the earnest prayer OF
a woman for future life is that she
may be man. Mohammedans be-
lieve that womans have souls, but the
Koran teaches that their future saliva
tion depends upon their husbands. If
faithful and obedient to them, they
can secure salvation in the world to
come.
Another peculiarly in the heather
woman's life, is her seclusion from
society. Millions of them are confined
in zenanas hurenas. | used to thiuk
the word "zenana" a beautiful word
and romantic but since have learned
its meaning it has sad sound 1t
means woman's apartments, but that
means woman's prison. In hign caste
Zenana, it means magnificent degra-
dation. 1t means beautiful women in
gorgeous apparel, but o, how de-